A Grammar of Modern Tamil

aaka accusative action added adjectival clause adjectival participle adverbial allomorph argument auxiliary verb bound causative clitic co-ordination complement conditional conjoined consists constituent context coreferential dative deleted demonstrative discussed distinguished element embedded en-ru event expresses final finite clause following example function future tense gender given grammatical head head noun Hereby illustrated infinitive inflected inkee interpreted interrogative Kumar Kumar-dat lexical locative main clause main verb marked marker meaning mentioned modal Modern Tamil morph morpheme morphological naan negative nominative non-finite not-3pln Note noun form noun phrase object oblique stem occur past tense pattern personal pronouns plural position postposition predicate present pronominal properties Raja realized reference relation relative clause represented respective semantic sentence shown singular speaker speech status strategy structure subject NP suffix syntactic tense third person types various verb forms verb stem verbal participle clause verbal participle form verbal predicate yesterday